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They just couldn't trust him in the end...
Even after he knew they were onto him Richard kept up the evasive answers to the bitter end, he had to have the truth dragged out of him. I agree with regard to the trust issue. I'd have fired him too. I don't think he is an unprincipled person, but hadn't considered the whole issue around setting up a business in tandem with his existing one, or the issue of the possible conflict of interests, and found himself wedged between a rock and a hard place. I don't actually think he was trying to con them, but having been made aware of the issues, he was simply trying to avoid having to make decisions which would impact badly on his brother and their existing employees. I can see where he was coming from, but I think he should have given a straight answer as soon as asked, and possibly asked for time out so he could phone his brother and discuss the issues with him. Not doing so may have cost him a place in the final, in my opinion. He was a promising candidate, and he knows he blew it with too much blag and bravado. |
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Sugar is semi retired having has sold most of his Businesses so be difficult to offer jobs.
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and more unlikeable ones compares to Richard in series 9,
totally forgot the awful Francesca who also made it to the interviews and the über boring Myles |
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People just don't like disingenuity. Richard was capable but far too smarmy and evasive. Granted, that hardly makes him a monster but it is a valid reason for dislike.
Weirdly though I felt sorry for him when he was fired. ![]() I meet a load like this in business, overfed, fat faced, slightly sweaty and overconfident, often under achievers who think they can fool people with a slick line and a load of management speak. We used to play a game in meetings called 'bulls**t' bingo and he would have given me a full house very quickly. Right at the start of this series Suralan read out the strapline about 'clearing away the clouds blah blah' and I recall Richard smugly saying he wrote it. Suralan said then he had never read such a load of rubbish and Richard looked like he had been kicked in the proverbials. I was glad to witness his final slitherings about the shares in the company with the brother and laughed out loud when he was fired. I saw him twisting a wedding ring - good luck to whoever tied the knot with this charmless nurk, time to cut and run luv. |
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Sadly I laughed my head off when he got fired. I loved seeing him unpeeled like and onion and having to admit his plan was bs in the interviews then finally admit on live TV he was a bullshiner.
I meet a load like this in business, overfed, fat faced, slightly sweaty and overconfident, often under achievers who think they can fool people with a slick line and a load of management speak. We used to play a game in meetings called 'bulls**t' bingo and he would have given me a full house very quickly. Right at the start of this series Suralan read out the strapline about 'clearing away the clouds blah blah' and I recall Richard smugly saying he wrote it. Suralan said then he had never read such a load of rubbish and Richard looked like he had been kicked in the proverbials. I was glad to witness his final slitherings about the shares in the company with the brother and laughed out loud when he was fired. I saw him twisting a wedding ring - good luck to whoever tied the knot with this charmless nurk, time to cut and run luv. Chuffed to bits he got the chop.
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His business plan was just bs. A shame he had a bit of last year's Mark about him who also pitched a digital marketing agency I think LS is happy about his investement there. But I don't generally get all the dislike for him in this thread. He was overall a very good candidate.
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and more unlikeable ones compares to Richard in series 9,
totally forgot the awful Francesca who also made it to the interviews and the über boring Myles |
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I enjoyed his BS being outed so much I've just sat and re-watched the interviews, gold entertainment.
Chuffed to bits he got the chop.The thing about selecting consultants to work with and then handing over a company's hard earned cash from their budget is all about trust and the consultant understanding the vision, values and culture of the business ..... |
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Sadly I laughed my head off when he got fired. I loved seeing him unpeeled like and onion and having to admit his plan was bs in the interviews then finally admit on live TV he was a bullshiner.
I meet a load like this in business, overfed, fat faced, slightly sweaty and overconfident, often under achievers who think they can fool people with a slick line and a load of management speak. We used to play a game in meetings called 'bulls**t' bingo and he would have given me a full house very quickly. Right at the start of this series Suralan read out the strapline about 'clearing away the clouds blah blah' and I recall Richard smugly saying he wrote it. Suralan said then he had never read such a load of rubbish and Richard looked like he had been kicked in the proverbials. I was glad to witness his final slitherings about the shares in the company with the brother and laughed out loud when he was fired. I saw him twisting a wedding ring - good luck to whoever tied the knot with this charmless nurk, time to cut and run luv. You must be a very miserable, unhappy person, to judge by the way you choose to see people and describe them here. |
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Just finally played my recording of Richard's coming out interview. The bloke is truly ghastly and was far worse on there than on the Apprentice. Had a look at his websites and he just is as big headed and grandstandng on these ... I wouldn't buy a used car from him tbh or give him my marketing budget to spend, thanks all the same.
The thing about selecting consultants to work with and then handing over a company's hard earned cash from their budget is all about trust and the consultant understanding the vision, values and culture of the business ..... If you ever write a marketing book, feel free to send me the link.. I'd be happy to buy it too, if it was any good. |
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I have no problem with the guy personally; even though he had that confidence-bordering-on-arrogance thing going, it was usually done with charm, plus it does kind of go with the territory.
My issue is more to do with the general impression that he's really running on empty, ideas-wise. Firstly there was the digital 'trailblazer' notion, allied to a cartoon rendition of a mountain - he admitted that was all a bunch of nonsense in the interviews. That then morphed before our very eyes into an outsourced marketing department with accountable ROI - nice try I guess, but inventive step there is none. Now, despite his on-screen candour, he's pushed on with his cartoon mountain - website, book and all. Unfortunately, for all its trailblazer packaging it really does look like very basic stuff. |
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I quite liked Richard. I'm never one to be used in a poll, I seem to like the hate, and hate the like. He stood out, was bossy (good) not really nasty, like some of the girls. He stood out, which is all I'm asking from The Apprentice
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Nah, he's just cheap. He's the sort of man who would use a voucher on a first date.
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Chuffed to bits he got the chop.